Furthermore: WMD sequel

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Speaking of another rogue ruler — Saddam Hussein — the speaker took to the microphone and demanded strong action — a “military response that will materially damage, if not totally destroy, as much as possible of the suspected infrastructure for developing and manufacturing weapons of mass destruction.”

The speaker emphasized he did mean merely lobbing a cruise missile or two as President Clinton had done. No sir. He was talking about sustained and if necessary escalating action to destroy the dictator’s “key military and command and control nodes” as well as suspected WMD sites.

Nope, the speaker wasn’t George W. Bush or Dick Cheney. It was the Sen. John Kerry, now Secretary of State.

“The rogue” Saddam, said Kerry in a Senate floor speech, “thinks nothing of ordering widespread, indiscriminate death and destruction in pursuit of power.

Hmmm. Will the tough guy dust off this speech, substitute “Assad” for “Hussein” and urge (substitute “President Obama” for “President Clinton”) to launch all-out military action against (substitute “Syria” for “Iraq”)?

Meanwhile, another Senator has emerged, New Jersey’s Bob Menendez, to play the Kerry tough guy role and urge the president to act.

Will Obama reprise the role of George Bush and plunge into the quagmire? Or — if the Benghazi hearings take a turn toward scandal — will Obama play the “wag the tail” role of Bill Clinton and lob a missile or two to distract attention from scandal? Will WMD in Syria go poof as it did in Iraq? Stay tuned for the sequel.